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Austria: metalworkers’ unions accept partial questioning of 40 years of unitary collective bargaining
Negotiate fast to negotiate more. “Until now, unions have been doing their best to maintain joint collective negotiations with the six employers’ organizations. We’re sad we still have not...
14 September 2012
Brazil: Mercedes-Benz freezes pay to save jobs
3,000 surplus jobs kept. The metalworkers’ union in the ABC area (the name given to the Sao Paulo metropolitan zone), affiliated with the Unified Workers’ Central (CUT), and Mercedez-Benz...
14 September 2012
Brazil: Sao Paulo metalworkers on strike for pay
The metalworkers’ federation of the State of Sao Paulo (EMF/CUT-SP), affiliated with the Unified Workers’ Central, has been organizing several strikes and mobilization actions within the framework...
13 September 2012
Portugal: CGTP union mobilizes against austerity
The General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP) is calling for a day of struggle and a gathering on September 29 in Lisbon against austerity. Independent, unorganized movements have called...
13 September 2012
Germany: a majority of Länder is about to support a bill introducing universal minimum wage
The issue of the introduction of universal minimum wage was revived after the Land of Thuringia, run by a conservative/social-democratic coalition, presented an initiative for a bill introducing...
12 September 2012
Italy: Monti seeks agreements from the social partners to increase productivity
Bringing back the competitiveness of Italian businesses would be “even more important than the spread” Mario Monti said, hence the need for employers and unions to find an agreement on the...
12 September 2012
Great Britain: unions could mobilize against the government’s austerity policy
The political temperature of the union battle against the government’s austerity programme moved up several notches at the annual gathering of the Trades Union Congress. Prior to it, the general...
11 September 2012
EU: report on the strategies of energy companies and their social and environmental impact
Debt. In the first part, the study talks about the purchases, mergers, and sales of sites and transmission networks done since 2010 and explains the national division of these businesses’...
11 September 2012
Spain: the civil society mobilized on September 15 against austerity
The second social summit, supervised by the UGT and Workers’ Commissions unions and made up of representatives from over 150 social organizations, presented the program for the march called in...
11 September 2012
Spain: agreement to outsource supplementary pension for Banco Santander staff hired before 1980
The UGT, Comfia-CCOO and FITC unions announced that they signed an agreement with the management of Banco Santander on the conditions to outsource supplementary pensions which will, in the future...
10 September 2012
Italy: with national union division in the background, IndustriAll Europe mobilizes against Fiat Iveco’s restructuring
Explaining that the “different local agreements” signed since the demonstration was called on June 28 “gloss over the main reason which gave rise to the debate within IndustriAll,” the two unions...
10 September 2012
France: Saint-Gobain signs new agreement on diversity
Sensitive urban zones. This first axis developed in the agreement is the “commitment to an active policy supporting the integration, in the Group’s undertakings, and maintaining ailing profiles...
10 September 2012
Great Britain: the pay gap between white workers and ethnic minorities is widening
A gap that has more than doubled. Research by Dr Malcolm Brynin and Dr Ayse Güveli, from the University of Essex published, in the last issue of the British Sociological Association’s journal a...
6 September 2012
Austria: the Austrian post signs a company agreement on a new working time scheme
Taking actual working hours into account. After 10 months negotiating and 30 meetings, the management of the Austrian post, employee representatives and representatives from the post and telecom...
6 September 2012
Netherlands: FNV union organizes estates general to end its divisions
The Dutch Labor Federation (FNV), the country’s key union, decided to organize a “Parliament” between in 19 affiliates to do a democratic reform and settle internal differences on the pension...
6 September 2012
Italy: tough autumn for the Italian labor market
Metal and steel. From Alcoa to Sardinia, where about 1,000 direct and indirect
workers could lose their job at Fincantieri, which is planning to cut 1,300
jobs out of 9,000 across the country...
5 September 2012
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
The Volkswagen brand announced on 30 September that it is terminating 10 of its 13 internal collective bargaining agreements, effective 31 December 2026. The announcement, which the carmaker...
1 October 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: Employers’ representatives seek to limit the rights of works councils
The Employers' Federation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände - BDA) published a report at the end of September in which it proposes a...
8 October 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026